I don't know about free beer....
But Open Source and Free Speech are awesome....

:) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark LaPierre [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A Happy Subscriber

Free, as in beer, is great but free, as in speech, is what is really great 
about Open Office.

On 05/17/2012 09:18 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Alan - we're glad you like it. Please note that this Apache OpenOffice 
> podling is now shipping Apache OpenOffice 3.4, which is probably a 
> better thing to upgrade to (if you can) than an older OpenOffice.org 
> 3.1 release. The Apache OpenOffice project is the way forward for most 
> OpenOffice.org users.
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/news/aoo34.html
>
> 김용일 and everyone - please note that all software products from the 
> Apache Software Foundation and every Apache project are always 
> available for free at our project's websites here on the apache.org 
> domain. You never need to pay, register, or sign up for anything to 
> download or use Apache software - ever.
>
> Many third party download sites like CNet, FileHippo, Softpedia, 
> Download-Whatever and the like may offer Apache software products 
> themselves on their websites. This is allowed under the Apache 
> License, and it's even allowed for those sites to charge for the download.
> However searching for "Fake OpenOffice site" shows that some download 
> sites are not as responsible as others in clearly stating if they've 
> modified the software, or why they are charging you for the download.
>
> But why would you ever want to pay someone else for a copy of Apache 
> software when you can always get it here free? 8-)
>
> - Shane
>
> On 2012-05-17 8:33 PM, 김용일 wrote:
>> i think so!
>> but also really do not think free
>> maybe exist responsible for giving somthing to others my knowhow
>>
>> 2012/5/18<[email protected]>
>>
>>> HI, I've just downloaded OpenOffice,3.1,and it is excellent. Here in 
>>> Scotland Microsoft Word,2007 cost £85, and yours is free. I like 
>>> your philosophy.
>>> Sláinte,
>>>
>>> Alan R Macdonald
>>> [email protected]
>>> Glasgow, Scotland
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